First edition, number 84 of 150 copies initialled by the author on the limitation leaf. A most attractive publication; a trade edition was published by Heinemann the following year. Vandeleur (1869-1901) was born in County Clare to a prominent soldiering family. He served in the conquest of Nigeria, in Uganda during the establishment of the protectorate (Unyoro expedition, 1895), and later at Atbara and Omdurman in the Sudan Campaign. He died in South Africa when his train was ambushed by a group of Boers including Irish train-wrecker Jack Hinton. He wrote an account of his service in Uganda and Nigeria entitled Campaigning in the Upper Nile and Niger (1898).
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